Disinfecting device



Aug- 6, 1929- v H'. VANGUNTEN 1,723,827

DISINFECTING DEVICE Filed June 26,- 1926 Il IIIIII'l In/vento@ Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

HENRY vANeunrnn, orlnnnnisuns, PENNSYLVANIA.

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This invention relates broadly to disinfecting apparatus, but it more especially comprehends the type adaptable for usein connection with a mausoleum or crypts ot" a mausoleum. D

An important object of this invention L to provide an improved means for deodorizing and purifying such vitiated air may develop in a mausoleum or crypt or series ot crypts contained therein.` i y .y

The principal object of this invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character embodying a substantially V-shapcd container having a tortuous air passage intercepting its lower end and discharging above the top thereof, said container adapted to be iilled with a disintecting material and a sealing material, the disinfecting material adapted to feed into the air passage so that the vitiated air as it passes therethrough will be deodorized and purilied, the sealing material tending to torce the disintecting material .intosaid passage and upon the latters consumption automatically sealing said pas-` sage. y

A still 'further object of this invention is to provide a container as above described with itslower end'intersecting an air passage communicating with the crypt dit a mausoleum, said container adapted to be iilled with a disinfecting material and a sealing material,ieach successively feeding into said air passage, and means positioned in said air passage to limit the flow `of said disinfecting material therein and to cooperate with said sealing material to e'liect the sealing of said air passage after the disinfecting material has been consumed.

Vith these and other objects in view, which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters oli reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view oi my improved mausoleum disinfecting apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of base member 5.

The devices of this general character with which I am familiar have proven unsatisfactory. in some instances owing to the fact that ieee. semaine. 118,683.

the [low of the disintecting materials by virtue of' the construction ot the apparatus and the use of sand or similar heavy substances frequently el'l'ected sealing of the air passageway considerably inadvance ot the .total consumption of the disinfecting material, thereby not only causing wastage'ol such njiaterial but greatly decreasing the eiiiciency of the device; and it was to overcome such deficiencies and to provide an apparatus siniple in construction and so arranged that the material intended to ultimately eifect automatic sealing of the air passagecannot reach such passage until the complete consumption ot the `disintecting material has taken place, while at the same time insuring that even such disinfecting material that may adhere to the container walls will be advanced to the air `passage ahead o'l' the sealing material, that I designed the device iorming the subject matter ot thisjinvention.

In the illustrated embodiment characterizing this invention, there is showna substantially rectangular hollow base member 5 formed with an inlet opening G in one ott' its sidewalls slightly spaced from one` end adapted to communicate with the interior of a mausoleum or crypt, anda similar opening 7 in the top otsaid,` member 5 at its opposite end adapted to receive the lower end of an exhaust conduit or flue member 8 which with member 5 forms in eii'ect a continuous air passage from the said mausoleum or crypt to conduct. the vitiated air from the mausoleum and discharge it in purified form, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

Suitably secured within the member 5 to the bottom and sidewalls but spaced from the top are the inclined battle or hopper plates 9 forming in effect an auxiliary receptacle or hopper 10, the purpose ot' which will be hereinafter explained.

The top wall ot member 5 is also formed with an opening 11 adapted to receive the lower end ot a substantially V-shaped container 12 the sidewalls of which are adapted to extend within member 5, and into the hopper 10 below the upper edges ol the plates 9 and transverse of said member 5, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings.

Hingedly secured to the sidewalls of the container 1.2 as at 13 is a separator plate 14 adapted to initially separate the disintecting crystals or other material 15 from the sealing material 16 ot any suitable substance l 10 and the openings between the upper edges ofthe plates 9 and the lower edges ofthe container 12 are filled with thedisinfecting material so that the vitiated air entering the opening 6 is forcedv to travel through -said material thereby deodorizing andV purifying the same prior to its discharge from the flue or vent 8.

` The member 14 somewhat retards the downward v'force of the weight of the sealing material 16 Vuntil. a portion of the disinfecting material 15 has'been consumed,lthereby preventing unduepressure on said' d'isinfecting material and causing itl to iiow too rapidly out of said container.

The further advantage of placing the disinfecting and' sealing materials in. the same receptacle is'that necessarily all of the disinfecting material mustbe consumed before the sealing'material can reach the air passage and effect sealingv thereof. In this connection it will be further n'otedthat by forming the'receptacle 10 and extending the lower end' of container :12 therein, Ya-tortuous air passage through the' d'isin'fe'cting material is effected `,so 'as to lengthen the air travel therethrough and at 4vthe same time limiting the amount of ldisinfectant within the passage, so that the greatest possible purification will be effected Iwith a minin'iuin consumption of the disinfecting material. Additionally, this construction insures a perfeet sealingl of'theair passage by the sealing i material when all of the disinfecting material has been consumed.

Although in practice I have found that the form of my invention illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred embodiment is the most-practical and efficient yet realizing'the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily Vary, I desire to emphasize that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts, may be resorted to within the scope olf the appended claims without departing from or sacrificing any of the principles of this invention.

. Having thus described my invention, what I desire protected by Letters Patent is as set forth in the following claim:

A disinfecting device comprising a container having an air passage comn'iunieating therewith, said passage being formed with inclined partitions spaced from the top thereof forming a receptacle or hopper, the lower end of said container projecting into said receptacle, a disinfecting material and a sealing material in superposed relation with respect to said disinfecting material adapted to fill said container and to successively feed into said receptacle to obstruct said passage and effect, respectively, purification of the vitiated air and the sealing of the said passage after the disinfecting material has been consumed.

HENRY VANGUNTEN.

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